, and as he said over and over and over, israel has a right to defend itself. >> so israel has elections coming up in january. maria, how do you think this is all going to play out in that election? >> i think that this incident, again, like i said in my first answer to you, netanyahu comes out looking very, very strong. and in fact, his opponent, who was as i understand going to announce a run against netanyahu before all of this started, has now backed down, and now it might be too late for him to announce anything, for anyone to announce rung against netanyahu, and he certainly has been strengthened. he showed that he was -- he had the ability to go up against hamas, to defend israel against anything without, frankly, starting a ground war or any sort of ground invasion. so i think that in order to -- or in his ability to really walk that balance, walk that tight rope, he has been strengthened. now, the cease fire right now is very fragile. so we'll see. as we know in politics, anything can happen. so we'll see. but for right now, if things stand the way they are, i think netanyahu is